THE CONTENT S. HISTORY of the present WA r. CHA P. I. Nothing decided in the war. State of the feveral powers concerned. Great Britain and Pruffia propofe an accommodation. Difficulties in concluding a peace. The condition and hopes of France. Demands on the king of Pruffia. Treaty faid to be between Ruffia and Austria [p. I. CHA P. II. Preparations for Battle of Sillery. State of the English garrison at Quebec. Defigns of Monf. Levi. a fiege. French army marches from Montreal. Their firength. Gen. Murray defeated. Quebec befieged. The English fleet under Lord Colville arrives. French vessels destroyed. Levi raifes the fiege CHA P. III. Diftrefs of Saxony. M. Broglio commands the main body of the French army. St. Germain commands on the Rhine. English army reinforced. K. of Pruffia's losses. Theatre of the war in the Eaft of Germany. Pofitions of the Auftrian and Pruffian armies. Battle of Landsbut. Prussian army under Fouquet destroyed CHA P. IV. The Auftrians take Glatz. VOL. III. Situation of the Pruffian armies. King of Pruffia CHAP. V. Caufe of the flowness of the Allies and French. Advantages on the fide of the French. Difference between Broglio and St. Germain. Marpurg and Dillenburg taken by the French. Battle of Corbach. Hereditary Prince wounded. Surprise and de- feat of Monf. Glaubitz at Ermsdorff. The Allies change their camp. Action at CHAP. VI. Laudobn blocks up Schweidnitz. Ruffians enter Silefia. March of the King of Pruffia from Saxony to Lignitz. Junction of the Austrian armies in Silefia. The Ruffians pafs the Oder. Plan of M. Daun. Loudobn defeated near Lignitz. Daun forms the blockade of Schweidnitz. Compelled to raise it. Action between General Hulfen and the army of the empire. Intercepted letter from the King of 'CHA P. VII. Situation of the French and English armies. Hereditary Prince surprizes a body of French in Zierenberg. General Bulow takes Marpurg. Defeated by Monf. Stain- ville. Gen. Wangenbeim passes and is obliged to repafs the Wefer. French retire from Mulhaufen to Caffel. Hereditary Prince marches to the Rhine, passes that river. Cleves taken. Wefel besieged. English expedition. M. Caftries forms an army on the Rhine. Siege of Wifel raised. Deaib and eulogium of George II. Accefion of George III. and his refolution of fupporting bis Allies CHAP. VIII. Ruffians and Auftrians enter Brandenburg. General Hulfen retreats from Saxony 10 Berlin. Evacuates it. The city capitulates. Berlin defcribed. King's palaces plundered. Enemy retires out of Brandenburg after having pillaged it Imperialifts make themselves masters of Mifnia. M. Stainville enters Halberfladt. Ruffians befiege Colberg. Laudoḥn befieges Cofel. King of Pruffia and M. Daun march into Saxony. Battle of Torgau. M. Daun wounded. The towns in Mif- The Allies raife the fiege of Gottingen. Winter quarters and fufferings of the Briti CHAP. XI. Thurot fails from Dunkirk. Puts into Gottenburg and Bergen. Puts into the ife of fquadrup Squadron taken. War in America. General Amberft goes down the river St. Lawrence. General Murray marches from Quebec Montreal furrenders. Cherokee war. Affairs of the Eaft Indies. Lally defeated by Coote THE CHRONICLE. [69 Some account of the frauds which occafioned the late Act of Parliament for the better regulation of the Fifbery The feafons wherein several sorts of Fifb are allowed to be taken, and the fizes Fif expofed for fale ought to be of A brief account of the Act for better supplying the cities of London and Westminster with Fifb [164 [166 [168 Regulations of the Fifb-markets in general in Holland, and particularly that at the Hague [170 Hiftory of the London brewery, from the beginning of King William's reign to the prefent time Openings to be made in the city of London, pursuant to the late Act of Parliament passed for that purpofe [173 A compendious fate of the cafe of Lord George Şackville, as it appears from the trial publifbed by his own directions Particulars relating to the interment of his late Majefty King George II. memory Supplies granted by Parliament for the year 1750 State of the national debt, as it flood Jan. 11, 1759, and Jan. 11, 1760 [175 of blessed [178 [182 [196 STATE PAPER S. Tranflation of a convention between the King of England and the [203 A tranflation of the Declaration delivered by the Auftrian minifter refiding at the [204 King of [205 Letter from M. Berryer to M. de la Broffe Declaration of the King of Pruffia, to his co eftates of the circle of Westphalia, &c. Memorial of the King of Poland, on raifing the fiege of Dresden [ibid. An account of the barbarous manner in which the Auftrian, Russian, and Saxon troops wafted the Marche of Brandenburgh, &c. (210 Anfwer to the foregoing relation, &c. [217 Tranflation of a very extraordinary Letter addressed to the Canadian militia, &c. [218 Articles of capitulation agreed upon and affented to by Captain Paul. Demere, commanding at Fort Loudon, and the beadmen and warriors of the Overhill Cherokee towns [219 Copy of a letter from Mr. Secretary Pitt, to the feveral governors and councils in North America, &c. [abid. Papers relating to the final reduction of Canada Articles of capitulation between General Ambert and the Marquis of Vaudreuil, Gopernor of Canada and Montreal A brief account of the Negotiation between Governor Lyttleton and Attakullakulla (or the Little Carpenter) Deputy of the whole Cherokee nation, and other beadmen The King's Proclamation, for the encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for pre- Copy of a letter from the Bishop of L- -n to the King The bumble Address of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University o [24, Compleat authentic Lift of men of war, both of France and England, taken, funk, or cafually loft, fince the commencement of the prefent hoftilities CHARACTERS. · Account of the Lacedemonians, from the celebrated Prefident Goguet's Origin of Laws, P. I ibid. The Life of Theodore King of Corfica, published in Bibliotheca Biographica, or Synopfs of universal Biography; a new work. In this account we must observe, that the Baron's character is represented in the most favourable light Some Anecdotes of the celebrated Thurot, taken from a pamphlet published by John The Bishop of Marseilles's letter to the Bijbop of Soiffons, Sept. 27, 1720, N. S. 3r A copy of an original letter, written by Mr. Solomon Da Cofta, and fent to the manuscript volumes in the Hebrew language, which were originally intended by the Jews as a prefent 10 King Charles II. 34 36 Milton's Apology for himself, against the charge of frequenting brothel-houses Some Account of the Right Hon. Laurence, late Earl Ferrers, and a circumftantial and authentic narrative of the murder of Mr. Johnjon, and the fatal confequences of that fact 38 48 56 An abstract of the life and beroic actions of Balbe Berton, Chevalier de Grillon NATURAL A remarkable nervous cafe HISTORY. An extraordinary phænomenon tranfmitted from Paris 59 68 71 A remarkable ftory of a gentleman walking in his fleep, as related by a foreigner 72 An account of the cafe of a boy troubled with convulfive fits, cured by the discharge of worms An account of the remarkable alteration of colour of a negro-woman 73 An account of the cafe of William Carey, aged nineteen, whofe tendons and muscles are turning into bones 75 76 Account of a Polish dwarf now at Paris 78 Account of the Irish giant 79 An effay to explain the reason why the Atlantic Ocean conftantly runs into the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar 80 Obfervations upon the North Sea, commonly called the Ice Sea; and upon the communication of feveral rivers with it Account of the Offrich, from Mr. Adamfon's defcription of Senegal 87 Experiments on the evaporation of ice, by Mr. Baron 9༠ ibid. An account of the heat of the weather in Georgia Remarks on the different temperature of the air at Edyftone, from that obferved at Plymouth, between the 7th and 14th of July, 1757 92 94 An account of the havoc made by a water-spout, which happened in the village of A remedy for a lameness produced by a fixed contraction of the parts affected An effay upon fchirrous tumours and cancers |